Pith Number

pith:W2V4DR2N

pith:2019:W2V4DR2NPHYJR6PLUN4ARDQZW3

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Don't Blame the ELBO! A Linear VAE Perspective on Posterior Collapse

George Tucker, James Lucas, Mohammad Norouzi, Roger Grosse

arxiv:1911.02469 v1 · 2019-11-06 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2V4DR2NPHYJR6PLUN4ARDQZW3}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:17:34.584504Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6abc1c74d79f098f9eba378088e19b6e481c4b6e1348ac80ab7d812cf4f2cad

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.02469 · arxiv_version: 1911.02469v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.02469 · pith_short_12: W2V4DR2NPHYJ · pith_short_16: W2V4DR2NPHYJR6PL · pith_short_8: W2V4DR2N

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W2V4DR2NPHYJR6PLUN4ARDQZW3 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: b6abc1c74d79f098f9eba378088e19b6e481c4b6e1348ac80ab7d812cf4f2cad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b7845c5b0b39da0201c2d74c771b7a5ac7d7167b18fc3078b236ca3bae9c444",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-06T16:34:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5d4c9dbe740a16d5142c38b93771940068c13168fceae295ff71f87fb2b0a7a1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1911.02469",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}